Steven Wood

Type: Person

Name: Steven Wood

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Alan Wood: Naval officer at Iwo Jima

at the age of 90, was a Second World War veteran who was credited with providing the flag in the famous flag-raising on Iwo Jima. Others have claimed they provided the flag, but retired Marine Colonel Dave Severance, who commanded the company that took ... [Published The Independent - May 16 2013]

Entities: Alan Wood, Steven Wood, Joe Rosenthal

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Mark Shields

Merseyside drugs gang kingpins who styled themselves on Pablo Escobar jailed for 119 years

They posed in T-shirts featuring Colombian drug-runner Escobar's photo while on a five-star overseas stag night, police saidThe kingpins of a gang who masterminded a £200million drugs conspiracy were jailed for 119 years today.The shameless gang styled ... [Published Mirror.co.uk - May 14 2013]

Entities: Pablo Escobar, Liverpool (United Kingdom), Mark Shields, Drugs

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Valero Energy Corporation

Shale gas: An energy revolution for your portfolio

Shale gas operations in the United States are expected to push the country toward energy independence in the years ahead, but their impact on U.S. and Canadian share prices could be just as profound.Moody’s Investors Service is a big believer in the drilling ... [Published Globe and Mail - May 13 2013]

Entities: Shale Gas, Steven Wood, Natural Gas, Valero Energy Corporation

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 1 reports

Lynchburg Police Warn Against Fake Department Website

Lynchburg, VA - Lynchburg Police want you to be on alert for a website imposter. According to LPD, there is a site with a very similar web address to the real Lynchburg Police Department's. LPD's current website is lynchburgva.gov/policedepartmentIf you ... [Published WSET - May 01 2013]

Entities: Fake, Police, Steven Wood

First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 29 2013 - 1 reports

University of San Diego

Midday open thread

Today's comic by Tom Tomorrow is The Guantanamo problem : What you missed on Sunday Kos ... GOP's guiding principle: get rid of the brown people by any means necessary , by Armando Austerity isn't dead... but it should be , by Mark Sumner Another ... [Published Daily Kos - Apr 29 2013]

Entities: Alan Wood, Wolf Blitzer, Starks (United States), University of San Diego

First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 29 2013 - 1 reports

Memorial held for Alan Wood, supplier of Iwo Jima flag

SIERRA MADRE, Calif. -- World War II veteran Alan Wood, who played a supporting role in the famed flag-raising on Iwo Jima, was remembered Saturday at a memorial service in California.The former naval officer provided the actual flag to the Marine Corps ... [Published Big News Network - Apr 29 2013]

Entities: Alan Wood, Unmanned Space Mission, Steven Wood

First reported Apr 28 2013 - Updated Apr 28 2013 - 1 reports

World War II veteran who provided flag on Iwo Jima dies at 90

Alan Wood, the World War II veteran credited with providing the flag in the historic flag raising on Iwo Jima, has died. He was 90. Mr. Wood died April 18 of natural causes at his Sierra Madre, Calif., home, his son, Steven Wood, confirmed Saturday. ... [Published The Washington Times stories: News - Apr 28 2013]

Entities: World War II, Alan Wood, Steven Wood

First reported Apr 28 2013 - Updated Apr 28 2013 - 1 reports

10 things you need to know today: April 28, 2013

The Tsarnaev brothers' Chechnya connection The week's best photojournalism 1. OBAMA CRACKS JOKES AT CORRESPONDENTS' DINNERPresident Obama joked Saturday night about his plans for a radical second-term evolution from "strapping young Socialist" to retiree ... [Published The Week Magazine - Apr 28 2013]

Entities: Zach Braff, Alan Wood, Michael Chertoff

First reported Jan 28 2013 - Updated Jan 28 2013 - 1 reports

David A. 'Al' Lehman Jan. 27, 2013

David A. "Al" Lehman, of Lexington, Okla., passed away on Thursday evening, January 24, 2013, with his seven children by his bedside at Purcell Municipal Hospital. Graveside services, under the direction of Griffin-Hillcrest, will be held at 10:30 a.m., ... [Published Ardmoreite.com - Jan 28 2013]

Entities: Steven Wood, Cornbread Red, Kenneth Wood, David Burge

First reported Dec 13 2012 - Updated Dec 13 2012 - 2 reports

Fed details plan to keep rates low December 13, 2012

Key rate to stay near zero until joblessness hits 6.5 percentWASHINGTON – The Federal Reserve sent its clearest signal to date Wednesday that it will keep interest rates super-low to support the U.S. economy even after the job market has improved sig ... [Published Spokesman-Review.com - Dec 13 2012]

Entities: Federal Reserve System, Ben Bernanke, Unemployment, Steven Wood, Unemployment Rate

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If you see this site, steer clear. Police say it's fake. "while the other site looks legit and some of the information they have is actually pretty good, we don't want the two sites to be confused. they may actually contradict each other" said Steven Wood

Lynchburg Police Warn Against Fake Department Website [Published WSET - May 01 2013]

"He didn't talk much about it," Wood's son, Steven Wood, told the Los Angeles Times. "he didn't draw attention to himself. he was just there when someone needed a flag and he gave it to them."

Memorial held for Alan Wood, supplier of Iwo Jima flag [Published Big News Network - Apr 29 2013]

"The Fed has become more explicit and more transparent," said Steven Wood, chief economist at Insight Economics. "this should provide the markets with much more clarity around monetary policy action in the upcoming year."

Fed ties rates to unemployment [Published Charleston Daily Mail - Dec 13 2012]